humorous code comments

[jcarmody]

This answer to a serious question makes me believe there are more examples of comments that you wrote/found that could brighten someone else's day.

I put this into a brute-force OCR VI I wrote before NI released a property node to get the event selectors in an Event structure:

I'm often tempted to write "If it was hard to write it should be hard to read.", but the minions here might take it seriously.

Please share your humorous code comments.

[Hooovahh]

"This comment is for future Brian. Screw you."

[wiebe@CARYA]

Turns out most of my comments (actually feedback for improvements) isn't funny.

Sadly, this is the funniest.

[Kyle97330]

If you didn't know... LabVIEW supports pasting images onto block diagrams.  So you are not limited to text comments.

I can't post the actual thing here because of company confidentiality, but my favorite useful one so far is where a fellow developer just straight up took a cell phone picture of a whiteboard that had a complicated diagram on it showing the process and the calculations involved, and just pasted that in with an arrow pointing to it as a way of explaining the calculations that the VI it was in was doing.

To be silly I would occasionally put "reaction meme" images in code that I was reviewing from another developer to show to them later.  That never gets committed to source control...

[JÞB]

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@Kyle97330 wrote:

If you didn't know... LabVIEW supports pasting images onto block diagrams.  So you are not limited to text comments.

I can't post the actual thing here because of company confidentiality, but my favorite useful one so far is where a fellow developer just straight up took a cell phone picture of a whiteboard that had a complicated diagram on it showing the process and the calculations involved, and just pasted that in with an arrow pointing to it as a way of explaining the calculations that the VI it was in was doing.

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( #Busted) 

In my defense, there had been a multi-hour meeting of the engineering team to explain, and agree on the algorithms and no one captured it on paper.  I had the whiteboard signed and dated by each responsible engineer and manager.  

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@Kyle97330 wrote:

If you didn't know... LabVIEW supports pasting images onto block diagrams.  So you are not limited to text comments.

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Just don't paste images of LabVIEW code into the diagram 😊.

That gets really confusing. Although you can resize the image, if you really insist on having LabVIEW code pasted as an image.

[JÞB]

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

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@Kyle97330 wrote:

If you didn't know... LabVIEW supports pasting images onto block diagrams.  So you are not limited to text comments.

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Just don't paste images of LabVIEW code into the diagram 😊.

That gets really confusing. Although you can resize the image, if you really insist on having LabVIEW code pasted as an image.

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#Busted again 

It's getting to feel like a "Pick on Jay's code thread"!

Should I even admit that I have stuck documentation on a Global VI Block Diagram?

[jcarmody]

It's funny that the default is the old, broken way.